Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
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Robert Louis Stevenson, by Alexander H. Japp
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON a record, an estimate, and a memorial
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTION AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER II—TREASURE ISLAND AND SOME REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER III—THE CHILD FATHER OF THE MAN
CHAPTER IV—HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED
CHAPTER V—TRAVELS
CHAPTER VI—SOME EARLIER LETTERS
CHAPTER VII—THE VAILIMA LETTERS
CHAPTER VIII—WORK OF LATER YEARS
CHAPTER IX—SOME CHARACTERISTICS
CHAPTER X—A SAMOAN MEMORIAL OF R. L. STEVENSON
CHAPTER XI—MISS STUBBS’ RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XII—HIS GENIUS AND METHODS
CHAPTER XIII—PREACHER AND MYSTIC FABULIST
CHAPTER XIV—STEVENSON AS DRAMATIST
CHAPTER XV—THEORY OF GOOD AND EVIL
CHAPTER XVI—STEVENSON’S GLOOM
CHAPTER XVII—PROOFS OF GROWTH
CHAPTER XVIII—EARLIER DETERMINATIONS AND RESULTS
CHAPTER XIX—EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN’S ESTIMATE
CHAPTER XX—EGOTISTIC ELEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS
CHAPTER XXI—UNITY IN STEVENSON’S STORIES
CHAPTER XXII—PERSONAL CHEERFULNESS AND INVENTED GLOOM
CHAPTER XXIII—EDINBURGH REVIEWERS’ DICTA INAPPLICABLE TO LATER WORK
CHAPTER XXIV—MR HENLEY’S SPITEFUL PERVERSIONS
CHAPTER XXV—MR CHRISTIE MURRAY’S IMPRESSIONS
CHAPTER XXVI—HERO-VILLAINS
CHAPTER XXVII—MR G. MOORE, MR MARRIOTT WATSON AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XXVIII—UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS
CHAPTER XXIX—LOVE OF VAGABONDS
CHAPTER XXX—LORD ROSEBERY’S CASE
CHAPTER XXXI—MR GOSSE AND MS. OF TREASURE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXXII—STEVENSON PORTRAITS
CHAPTER XXXIII—LAPSES AND ERRORS IN CRITICISM
CHAPTER XXXIV—LETTERS AND POEMS IN TESTIMONY
GREETING
R. L. S., IN MEMORIAM.
APPENDIX
THE LAND OF STEVENSON, ON AN AFTERNOON’S WALK
THE TOP OF CAERKETTON CRAGS.
VISITED HIS FOREST OF PENTLAND.
HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR TO STEVENSON.
THE WESTLAND WHIGS WERE SCATTERED
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